Real incidents and fixes from running a WordPress hosting platform, with the numbers behind them.
We counted 4.1 million homepages in 32 European countries. 47.6% run WordPress, from 59% in Estonia to 35% in Czechia, and hosting differs a lot.
We checked nearly a million German homepages from Common Crawl's September 2026 crawl. 47% run WordPress, and three hosts serve more than half of them.
We priced a WordPress server on AWS. Outgoing traffic was a small part of the bill, because WordPress pages are light and idle CPU cost far more.
Backups of a 25 GB store took seconds, but restoring one failed every time after about two minutes. Why restores are slower and what we changed.
Server location is the easy part. Agencies and site owners should compare who owns the host, the price in year three, site isolation, restores and updates.
robots.txt can allow ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity while your server or CDN still blocks them. How to test all three layers and spot fake crawlers.
A WordPress login rate limit counted every visit to the login page, so logging out and back in locked people out for ten minutes.
Posts with Cyrillic slugs redirected to themselves forever while HEAD checks said 200 OK. How we found it, what fixed it and how to prevent it.
A one-second 503 got stuck in front of every visitor, and later a cached redirect looped a homepage. What went wrong and the three rules we added.
A crawler followed about 51,000 add-to-cart and remove links in one day. Every visit skipped the cache. Here is why and how we blocked it.
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